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Webb TB Album: Miss Bessie Wilson

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Description: Full-length cut-out portrait of Bessie Wilson wearing a fur-trimmed overcoat.
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Webb TB Album: A Pair of Spectacles?

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Description: Two identical cut-out images (one accented with red coloring) of two women in bathing suits and caps posing on a path surrounded by foliage, from a scrapbo...
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Child Sitting on Bench

Date: 1875
Description: Tintype/ferrotype of a child sitting on a bench wearing a white dress and shoes.
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Portrait of Woman Wearing Beaded Dress

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of an African American woman posing in front of a wooden bench and a velvet curtained backdrop. She is wearing a long dress emb...
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Three Men in a Shoeshine Shop

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Description: Two African American men working in a shoeshine shop. The younger man is shining the shoes of a white customer who is sitting in one of the chairs on the e...

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